MapReduce offers a flexible programming model for processing and generating large data sets on dedicated resources, where only a small fraction of such resources are every unavaila...
Heshan Lin, Xiaosong Ma, Jeremy S. Archuleta, Wu-c...
We present an adaptive work-stealing thread scheduler, ASTEAL, for fork-join multithreaded jobs, like those written using the Cilk multithreaded language or the Hood work-stealing...
Kunal Agrawal, Charles E. Leiserson, Yuxiong He, W...
Simple Temporal Networks (STNs) are frequently used in scheduling applications, as they provide a powerful and general tool for managing temporal constraints. One obstacle to thei...
Scheduling in an environment with constraints of many different types is known to be a hard problem. We tackle this problem for an integrated steel plant in Ghent, Belgium, using ...
Cluster tools, which combine several single-wafer processing modules with wafer handling robots in a closed environment, have been increasingly used for most wafer fabrication pro...